Russian attacks kill six in Ukraine including Kyiv, officials say By Reuters

Written by Vladyslav Smilianets and Gleb Garanich

KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Saturday, killing three people, while two other attacks in the south of the country killed three others, officials said. said.

In Kyiv, explosives exploded in the sky before dawn as air defenses responded to the attack, which wounded three others, according to the city’s military administration chief Timur Tkachenko.

He said that a mall, a business center, a metro station and water pipes were damaged in the attack.

“Russian forces first launched drones and then struck,” parliamentary investigator Dmytro Lubinets wrote on social media. “These actions highlight the brutality and brutality of the enemy.”

Rescue workers waded through a flooded street as they sifted through the debris. The charred remains of the van could be seen in front of the station, whose facade was marked by twisted metal and blown out windows.

As the sun rose, they could be seen examining the bullet fragments and loading the body bag into the truck.

Air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told Ukrainian media that both missiles aimed at Kyiv were destroyed, but one of them was shot down at low altitude, causing damage. big.

There was no immediate comment from Moscow, which refused to target civilians.

Another Russian bomb attack killed one person and wounded 11 in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said.

The governor of the nearby southern region of Kherson, Oleksandr Prokudin, said Russian artillery killed two people in a town north of the regional center, also called Kherson.

The Ukrainian military said it destroyed 24 out of 39 drones and two out of four missiles launched by Russia in various parts of Ukraine during the overnight raid.

On Friday, a Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, killed five people and damaged an educational site, officials said. A woman injured in the attack died in hospital on Saturday.

“All those who help the Russian state in this war must face such severe pressure as these attacks,” Zelenskiy wrote on social media in response to Saturday’s attack.

Russia has carried out repeated airstrikes on towns and cities behind the front line since it began its nearly three-year invasion of Ukraine, targeting key installations.